Editing Gloria (section)

===First Modern Gloria===
The first of the Modern Glorias was held only 370 years ago, when a series of terrible floods on the LightningStroke river threatened to destroy the whole of the City of Luminaux.  At that time, Pelor sent a vision to a bard-priest by the name of [[Gabriel]]. He was to seek out the human woman [[Rachel Lost Child]], an orphan adopted by the White Sand clan of halflings, marry her, and bring her to Luminaux to sing a mass on the  Day of Harmony. He did so rather directly, choosing to believe that the vision of the Morning Star gave him license to essentially kidnap her.  Though eventually love did blossom between them, their relationship was as much rivalry as partnership.  

When given the choice of music, she chose for them the ''Magnificat'', an implicit challenge, as the difficulty of that music is unparalleled. She further upped the stakes by refusing to tell him what she had chosen until the last moment, by singing the opening notes of the first movement, acappella.

They both rose to the occasion, becoming only the second mortal man, and the first mortal woman, to successfully perform publicly the entirety of the symphony alone. To this day, they remain the last who have done so.

The power and beauty of the music moved Pelor to intercede in the weather patterns, averting the floods and saving the city.